We help people collaborate on public code. Our focus is on the communities around a given codebase.
If your open source progam office (OSPO) or organization is planning to:
- open up one of your codebases for other people to reuse and contribute to
- use an existing codebase to the extent that it becomes important to your organization, and you’d like to participate in its governance
- contribute your work back into a codebase (upstream)
- work with third parties (especially vendors) to do any of the above
Then we can help you, your organization’s staff, and (potentially) the wider codebase community:
- clarify and improve governance around the codebase
- develop good working practices that make collaboration easier and improve the quality of the codebase
- work on the communication, culture change and organizational values that come with collaboration in the open
Email us at info@publiccode.net to start the discussion.
Getting started with a government OSPO
If you’re looking for more general OSPO advice or government digital transformation guidance, we recommend:
- The OSPO – A new tool for digital government by Open Forum Europe and the OSPO Alliance
- OSPO.zone by the OSPO Alliance (we’re a founding member)
- TODO Group community and resources by the TODO Group
- Open source in government: creating the conditions for success by Public Digital
- Building and reusing open source tools for government by the New America Foundation
- Guidelines for sustainable open source communities in the public sector by the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory